Submissions

Interested in having your work published in Poet Lore?

Poet Lore publishes original poems, book reviews, and critical essays about contemporary poetry, poetics, and poets. We make a decision on submissions within three months of receiving them. Poet Lore is published semi-annually and includes selected work in a timely manner. Contributors receive two complimentary copies of the issue in which their poem(s) appears and a one-year subscription. Additional copies may be purchased for the special price of $5 plus $2 for shipping.

- You may submit up to five poems.

- All poems must be typed with name and address on each poem. Photocopies are accepted. No staples.

- If a poem is more than one page, please indicate if the second page begins with a new stanza.

- Prose submissions should be double-spaced.

- We discourage multiple submissions. If you send multiple submissions, let us know in your cover letter.

- We do not read e-mail submissions. All submissions must be mailed.

- A self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) must accompany all submissions. For notification of our decision only, include a #10 SASE; if you want the entire manuscript returned, please send an appropriately sized envelope with sufficient postage. No manuscripts will be considered without an attached SASE.

- We do not consider work that has been previously published.

- We are currently not considering translations.

- Poet Lore requires first serial rights and anthology rights (for its own anthology projects and those of The Writer's Center). It requests (but does not require) the right to publish accepted poems electronically on its Web page. All other rights revert to the author upon publication, although Poet Lore expects to be credited when poems are republished.

- Sample copies of a recent issue are available from the address below for $9 ($8 + $1 shipping). Make check or money order payable to The Writer's Center.

4508 Walsh St
Bethesda, MD 20815

Thank you for your interest.